10.08.2012

October 1962: American Folk Blues Festival

The musical revue tours Europe, bringing such performers as John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker and Willie Dixon to appreciative audiences. Later festivals would include Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, among others. (Poster from October 18 show in Hamburg, Germany.)* Listen to performances (from archive.org): @* Discography: @* From "Encyclopedia of the Blues" (1997): @* From "Black, White and Blue: Racial Politics of Blues Music in the 196os" (Ulrich Adelt, 2007): @* From "Blues Music in the Sixties: A Story in Black and White" (Adelt, 2010): @* From "Changing the World, Changing Oneself: Political Protest and Collective Identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s" (2010): @* From "I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story" (Willie Dixon, Don Snowden, 1990): @